Eve: First Lady of Charts
The 20-year-old hip-hop up-and-comer scored the highest debut ever for a female rapper as her Eve--Ruff Ryder's First Lady bowed with 213,000 in sales for the week ended September 19.
The record-setting performance by the platinum-haired Philadelphia rapper was keyed by the single "Gotta Man" and hype-garnering appearances on compilation albums from the red-hot Ruff House Records (see: Ryde or Die).
Eve also upset the applecart, unexpectedly beating the Backstreet Boys, who just launched one of America's biggest tours of 1999. Although hurricane winds blew back the first Florida dates of the tour, the quintet still sold 173,000 copies of the almost six-times platinum Millennium.
Ex-Mouseketeer Christina Aguilera remained at No. 3 with her self-titled debut (160,000), ahead of the Dixie Chicks' Fly (151,000).
Santana continues to defy time as the Supernatural album came in at No. 5 with 146,000 in sales. Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause turned in 136,000 to hold down the sixth slot. Limp Bizkit's Significant Other stayed at No. 7 with 118,000 in sales, one spot ahead of that other ex-Mouseketeer record, Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time.
Lou Bega danced into the Top 10 with 95,0000 units for his hit A Little Bit of Mambo, which moved up three slots to No. 9.
The new rap recording that was supposed to break high was Ol' Dirty Bastard's Nigga Please, a disc the Wu-Tang Clan stalwart apparently found time to make in between court appearances. The album entered at No. 10 with sales of 93,000.
The Beatles landed back on the charts this week, as their Yellow Submarine Songtrack--a new compilation featuring digitially remixed cuts from the original soundtrack and other tunes appearing in the just-rereleased film, minus the George Martin instrumentals--surfaced at No. 15.
The week's other top 20 bow belonged to country songbird Martina McBride whose Emotion opened at 19.






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